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		ptx on May 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI f... > Also it's almost immoral calling "a new" project "lightweight" and "small". Of course it is lightweight and small, it's a new project ! Unless it's Swing, where a "lightweight" component is one that uses enormous piles of slow Java code to duplicate native platform functionality.

Sohcahtoa82 on May 25, 2023 [–]

Never understood why Java duplicated (poorly) native platform functionality rather than merely acting as a wrapper around the native platform.

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